Defense
Layered air defence is being rebuilt around cost per intercept
The threat is cheap and numerous. Defending against it with expensive interceptors is arithmetic that only works for a short time.
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Tom Okafor
Safety and regulation · Toronto
Tom covers accident investigation, maintenance practice and the regulators. He writes carefully and slowly about incidents, and quickly about everything else.
He holds a private pilot licence and a healthy respect for checklists.
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Space
Reentry corridors are getting crowded and nobody owns the schedule
Controlled deorbits now intersect commercial air routes often enough that airspace closures are a recurring cost, coordinated case by case.
Aviation
Hub expansion approved after seven years, with conditions nobody has costed
The planning decision permits a third pier and 24 additional stands, but ties construction to noise and surface-access commitments that…
Aviation
Runway resurfacing forces a summer of night closures and rewritten schedules
The work cannot wait another season. Airlines have been given eleven weeks of reduced night capacity and have responded by moving cargo…
Defense
Tanker replacement programme moves to a fixed-price second tranche
The procurement authority has restructured the remaining buy after cost growth on the first eight aircraft, shifting risk to the…